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Asking the Dumb Questions (Patreon)

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The girlies get down to business and confront the questions society is too scared to ask: are mosquitoes tiny terrorists? Should I be getting preventative rabies shots? WHAT IS GLASS?? And so, so much more. This episode involves minimal reseach, maximum questioning, and radically accepting our ignorance. Digressions include medical mystery corner, the unending mystique of The Ocean, and an unanswered query about the relationship between two Godly Wives. 

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Chelsea Daniel

lmao happy for Julia for winning this one

karlise loza

this is so appropriate as i have 24 mosquito bites on me post yosemite trip

Holly Mattox

Was literally just about to pick an Otherworld pod episode to stream while packing my apartment and this appears………

Jess Chachere

yes i am so happy for the mosquito episode i have a million bug bites after camping and i am suffering thank you julia

MargaretMegan

I was actually just sobbing and prayed this episode would come to save me 🧎‍♀️ thank you

Roni

You guys looks so f’n cute in your merch photos omg! 😍

Katelyn Fletcher

Honestly i am so grateful for this. Just got broken up with. Honestly this makes it better.

Carlee Knott

Praise heavens be, the binchie goddesses have delivered unto the godly wivessss ✨✨✨

payt

Massage therapist hereeee! As you were describing your symptoms I was like oh: sciatica. You probably just have some nerve impingement. Go get a massage girl 💗

Erica MacLean

Cut my leg open listening to the pod and needed 9 stitches!!! Thanks queens!! I’ll forever remember you when I see the blood stains in my carpet!!

Kate Ross

Mosquitos definitely come from the depths of hell. Can’t wait to listen on my hour long drive to work tomorrow 🙃

Emily

GIRLS!!! thank you so much im literally about to take off for a 17 hr flight yall are sent from God herself!!

Roni

Ahhh Just finished my order & I’m so excited, love you guys! One day I’ll be a real godly wife to this channel lol

Mollie Edsell

as someone who just had to kill 4 mosquitoes in my parents woodsy pennsylvania home… they’re terrorists.

McKinzie Smith

omg okay this is my time to shine: my boyfriend and i were in the middle of a move where we left our doors open for an extended period of time to get furniture out. apparently at some point a bat said “that’s a place for me!” and flew inside and all around our room as we were sleeping. i woke up and a dead bat was just RIP’ing on the floor. i had no idea what to do so i threw that MF in the trash can, then made my bf get in the car and we immediately went to get rabies shots. we were told at the ER that we should have sent the bat off for testing with animal control because it was dead and can be tested for rabies even after death, but it may have had rabies because it died for some reason and that’s like kind of unexplainable. anyway they made us get the shots and i can confirm they did suck big time! i got mine in my thigh, toward the ass but not in the ass cheek proper. the prophylactic shot was the worst one (that’s the first one) but the actual rabies shots honestly could have been worse. they did make me super feverish the next day each time and we had to go back three more times for full treatment. anyway, at this point i pretty much for sure don’t have rabies because this was almost two years ago but! now i have an ingrained fear of rabies and don’t even like to go camping because i’m afraid of wild animals like that. the world is so scary!

Emily

Eliza is FRIENDS WITH GORDI???????????? Australian representation 🫡

Kendall

“Nevertheless, she persisted” - mosquitoes

motheta

listening to this while itching the fuck out of my 20 mosquito bites

Mia Leo

please know that you are singlehandedly curing my tonsillitis via the pod. antiobiotics have NOTHING on you binchies

Isabella Harvey

cultivating the heebie jeebies and googling “nyc bats rabies 2023”

Verlaine

dear Eliza, please listen to the podcast Outlaw Ocean—a journalist covers a bunch of freaky crimes that happen in those lawless maritime dead zones!!

Ondine

this scared me sm I was so glad to discover australia is rabies-free

Allyn (uh-lyn)

Oh my god I forgot to write in but my step dad freed a fox from a hunter's trap he had randomly passed on the highway and the fox nipped his hand in the confusion. Me and his sister were hysterically begging him to get the shot beCAUSE we knew rabies is 100% fatal and he was being a weird man about it and was like mm I think it'll be okay? But he got the one million shots and now we always get him fox themed presents.

Emily Bee

As a resident stemstress this episode was very funny. Fun mosquito fact, there’s been government programs (for awhile now) where scientists raise male mosquitos in a lab, sterilize them, and release them to reduce number of eggs laid. Fuck those bugs 🔪

riavis

When I was like 15 my mum and I went to a glass blowing workshop and it was so fun but glass is so fucking weird—the glass is heated up in a giant furnace especially designed to reach temperatures high enough to melt it, you hold a big ass metal stick and shove it in the furnace to collect a lump of mOLTEN glass and then you use a stack of wET NEWSPAPER to mould it into shape because apparently that’s the best material to work with something so hot it would melt your skin. It was a wild experience, very fun but also extremely hot

Babsy

This is honestly one of the funniest episodes y’all have done

riavis
>>113239709

Also can recommend blown away on Netflix it’s a glass blowing competition the things they can make it’s completely bonkers

mads

you two are the smartest people i know and sometimes it’s rly intimidating but this episode was just so refreshing and silly

riavis

Top tier episode, also: the earth moves around the sun because of gravity (it is falling around the sun) and not oNLY does the earth move but the solar system is also spinning around the galaxy and the galaxy is also spinning around other galaxies, not sure if that makes things better or worse

bug

God tier ep! a perfect first bonus ep to a brand new baby patrionite. appreciate u, binchies

Narcisa

I have no idea how I forgot about this but a couple of years ago I had an ex FROM HELL and we broke up and went no contact. I knew all of her family, and her sister was always super rude to me. The last I heard about her and her family was a Facebook post my mom sent to me stating that her sister went to Africa on one of those like white savior trips (very on brand for the family) and got fucking MALARIA and had to be airlifted back to the US 😭 when my mom told me this I remember that I couldn’t stop laughing because of the karmic justice of it all. She was fine in the end I guess so I don’t feel bad for thinking it was hilarious

Claire

Most ships will “fly the flag” of a country and then those countries laws apply in the ocean. For example, a lot of cruise ships no matter their country of origin “fly” the Filipino flag because the the Philippines has laxer labor laws and they can more easily exploit employees l

Sunny

re: maritime law. certain serious crimes committed by or against US nationals can be prosecuted by the feds (including on the high seas) [source: i just got my JD a month ago. and i looked it up 😎]

Hana U
>>113247262

wait i just made it further in the episode this is about the girl you mentioned survived so yay

Tyler sturgeon

I learnt that glass was made by sand because of Sweet Home Alabama when lightning hit the sand

Laurel Sherburne

omg girlies my mom and i forgot to get a seat reservation on our train from budapest to ljubljana so we are standing and this is the only thing keeping me sane. so silly xoxo

Amanda Weymouth

Feeling so represented as a fellow mosquito loved girl who is extra allergic to mosquitoes. Tiger mosquitoes are a kind of mosquito that carry malaria, they are invasive in the US and making a comeback. And if you are naturally sensitive to mosquitoes like me, these bites are so much worse than native mosquito bites. This is the end for me 🫡

Amanda Weymouth

My best tip as a mosquito victim is if you are going to a place with high risk of mosquitos (you can google and find the daily risk assessment in your location) then take allergy medicine BEFORE exposure. It really helps minimize the reaction once you are bit

Amanda Weymouth

ALSO mosquito repellent clothes in addition to your preferred repellent. I have some repellent socks that prevent bites around my ankles and bandanas that I tie on my purse or wear on my head.

Amanda Weymouth

ALSO just got to the part where julia asks for product recommendations and I will say HYDROCORTISONE! It’s really better than anything advertised as “for” bug bites. And allergy medicine, especially taking Benadryl to help you tame the itch at night

Katie Griffiths

I got the rabies pre exposure vaccine for a trip to Madagascar and when I was back they gave me another and said I’m immune for life??! Honestly a vibe

Crunchy Carrot

Toothpaste or calamine lotion works for mosquito bites binchstresses. from an australian binch who deals with roided up mosquitos each summer

✨

Heyyy I put this on the subreddit but no one responded yet - I have a late Boston show ticket that I sadly need to sell 😔 I realized I simply won't be able to drive into Boston that late due to always being sleepy by 9

Charlie Wright

I too have HEINOUS sciatica from a herniated disc and I need to thank u guys for getting me thru my immobile era.. I would just lay in bed playing phone games listening to every empisode

Maya Matlack

Eliza is giving Michael Scott's Dunder Mifflin Rabies Awareness Fun Run Race for the Cure

Gabrielle Horvath

I moved to the UK from the US and I was shocked to find out that they eliminated rabies in 1920??? Red foxes run wild in the streets (they're our version of raccoons???) and I was scared at first but NO RABIES!

Amber Litwiller

I love in Lexington, KY and recently a bat was found to have rabies. This comes at a terrifying time, I may have to vax up

6catsinaTrenchCoat

There’s a fake dragonfly thing on Amazon to wear. Mosquitos are afraid of dragonflies.

Lilly Hogan

ppl need to be more scared of rabies lmao

Emily

The mosquito zapper doesn’t actually attract mosquitos IT IS KILLING OTHER INSECTS MOSQUITOES ARENT DRAWN TO LIGHT, MOTHS AND BEETLES ARE

Lilly Hogan

do you ever think about like. what if they cut off peoples heads when they die from rabies too

Genevieve Hulshof

studied the olfactory neurons of female mosquitos for a while and they find hosts by the amount of co2 they emit first, then skin smells and lactic acid

Sofia

eliza’s story brought me violently back to when i had numbness and tingling symptoms two years ago- mine turned out to be anxiety and a little bit of a herniated disc but i have a similar story of an unhelpful urgent care doctor asking me if i was pregnant 50 times (i am a lesbian) and then also convincing myself i had ms. sending love to you queen ❤️

✨

Raise ur hand if you knew about glass being made of sand because of the Reese Witherspoon movie Sweet Home Alabama 🙋🏻‍♀️

abigail

i just have to say that i work at CVS corporate & they sometimes put free product out for people to take home and there r currently some bottles of D Mannose and i thought of u queeeens

Liz Callahan

Omg not only do I LOVE this episode, but I would love to hear you guys interview someone who knows about global warming / climate crisis / the science behind it! I feel like y'all have a great way of delivering technical subjects to the masses in an understandable format 🥰 love y'all

Liz Callahan

PS Julia the Krebs cycle is an energy production cycle! It also happens in your own body 🤪❤️ it makes the molecule that gives your body energy

Rachel Shifra

NY girlies forced to take Earth Science are feeling real educated right now

✨

ALSO I have a deeply held belief that emphasis placed on STEM and that kind specific kind of intelligence is inherently misogynistic. And that's why I'm so annoyed by K12 being increasingly focused on STEM and neglecting humanities - like YES girlies should have the opportunity to be welcomed into STEM fields if that's what they want and it is an issue that the culture is so masculine but also women have been working and been smart for all of time and the ways in which we've done that are valid and deserve higher pay instead of just trying to break into the fields where pay is already high. The only reason some jobs are paid higher is because men are doing them!!

big booty marie

okay hear me out... binchtopia episode about the historical significance of the fear of the ocean. many a religion has centered around respecting that bitch bc ofc she is THAT BITCH.

kristin morrison

not sure if i want to relisten to this episode high or if that would send my mind into an downward spiral

Joe Rogan

Y’all are the best this was amazing

ssteph

as a stemstress, the second half of this ep raised my blood pressure a tad i won’t lie lmao

Aidan Madley

K, you gals are FUELLING my marathon training. I listened to this episode on a run this morning, and audibly burst out in laughter on the side of the highway multiple times. Thank you for giving me an ab working whilst running. The binchatita motivation is alive and well.

6catsinaTrenchCoat

Seriously I need everyone to look at the Dragonfly wingman! It seriously works for mosquitoes. Those little bastards are terrified of dragonflies and will not approach you. It’s a little dragonfly on a spring attached to a clip.

annabeth

seeing you guys in charlotte!!

Abbey W

all i can think of during the discussion of glass is the jennifer lawrence hot ones meme where she’s like “what do you mean??? what do you MEAN???”

Abbey W
>>113235825

i will be adding “cultivating the heebie jeebies” into my lexicon 💀

Gabbi Mucerino

UN Convention on the Law of the Seas ! Also exclusive economic zones / high seas are open to everyone but the USG does to Freedom of Navigation Operations to maintain access to high seas (I took a grad school class on the Law of the Sea)

Laurel

“convincing myself I have multiple sclerosis” miss girlie not to be alarmist but I literally have it and those symptoms were indeed part of my diagnosis battery so no scary stuff but def push to get checked out!

Kit

slightly unrelated but my family used to have a little kitty named shadow and apparently shadow killed and ate a prairie dog that had the black plague and shadow seemed sick so we took her to the vet and the vet told us the cat had the plague so it had to be put down and “disposed of”, but prior to that the cat bit my sister so then she had to be tested for the plague and the local newspaper had an article about it like “local girl might have plague” so she was tested and was fine but a few months go by after the cat was supposedly euthanized by the vet and my dad takes our dog to the vet and sees a cat in the waiting room that looked suspiciously similar to the plague cat and then he realized is IS the plague cat that the vet said was euthanized (and yes the vet charged for it) and so my dad confronted the vet about all of it was like is this my cat and the vet was like yeah i really liked the cat and i nursed it back to health (????!) and kept it. anyways the vet lost their license for malpractice

Vanessa Rae

Julia I did the same thing to my neck/back a couple of weeks ago just by sleeping and I literally could not move for days 🥲 I alternated between ice and heat which helped a little bit but I was so upset that I literally apparently cannot even sleep correctly

Sadie Johnstone

If anyone is interested in learning more about glass, the book How We Got to Now has a whole chapter on glass and it’s fascinating!

Ella

Literally goodbye

Kaylin Drag

the earth is tilted on its axis! thus as it orbits around the earth, one hemisphere is always closer to the sun making that hemisphere summer, and the farther one away winter!!

Kaylin Drag
>>113262041

also, i believe wind has something to do with hot and cold fronts colliding???

annabeth

Eliza!! I have a rabies Chapel Hill story!! I went on a class trip in 3rd grade to a chapel hill goat farm (that will remain unnamed) and a bunch of us pet the animals. Then like a week later a donkey on the farm died of rabies, and we all might have been exposed. Then like all of us had to get rabies shots. Shout out to montessori school.

Emily

As someone with a chemistry degree, I literally could not tell you anything about the atmosphere- what I remember about the ozone layer is that O2 (the oxygen we breathe) reacts with nitrogen gas NO2 in the atmosphere to form O3 (miss ozone) and hairsprays contain CFCs. Someone with an environmental degree fill in the rest lol. Also my chemistry teacher used to always say glass is a slow moving liquid and that old windows have holes at the top.

Alexis

What do we do in humid places to shield ourselves from MOSquitos is cry

Elle Rayl

Benadryl Anti-itch sticks!!! I was a camp counselor in the Midwest and it was the only thing that kept me from scratching a layer of skin off

Alice Creed

This one is nottttt for the girlies with medical anxiety

Michelle

this is not great for my hypochondria lmao

Jordan

okay but eliza saying “hydrophobic” reminded me of nick sturniolo hahahahah ANYONE ELSE?!!!

goodgalbritt

im very allergic to mosquitoes & i had to go to the ER once because i gotten cellulitis from a mosquito bite!! the nurse told me if i ignored it i would have had to get my arm amputated due to infection spreading.... mosquitoes are my mortal enemy!!!

E

One of my besties had to get rabies shots because a bat flew INTO her mouth

Dahlia Forte

my source here is the classic film Sweet Home Alabama, but sea glass forms when lightning strikes the beach… i think… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Maya Harris

thanks eliza, will be lying to my dr saying i got bit by a bat and need a rabies shot, cause no way we’re all walking around like this. plus there’s SO many deer around me, deer families are just crossing the street and chilling in ppls yards

Katya

sandgrains.com for beautiful microscopic pictures of sand 🫶🏼 it’s so cool!

Sienna

I learned in my genetics classes in college that scientists are working to sterilize/kill off populations of mosquitoes by mutating mosquitoes to produce sterile baby mosquitoes so eventually they will just be a lot a sterile mosquitoes that can’t reproduce then die off

ssteph
>>113259964

i was screaming “PRESSURE DIFFERENTIAL” alone in my car

ssteph

i spent a month in kenya in college with a research team i led and we also obv had to all take malaria prevention meds and there are actually two main ones! only one of them gives you insane dreams, and they wouldn’t prescribe me that one because i’m mentally ill and if you’re mentally i’ll and take that one you might go into psychosis

Maya Harris

eliza’s valid for the plane one cause it’s the only way to travel in a relatively straight shot is in a plane

Dahlia Forte

Julia the weather in the SF Bay Area is extremely unique in that it is so varied. My sibling lives in the South Bay and they’re an environmental scientist, they’ve explained it to me before and i fully don’t get it but what i understand is: the terrain is so varied with a lot of peaks and valleys, and that creates diff pressure systems (maybe ???) which makes the weather different all over…

Emily

Re: glass - lightning!!! Need you to watch Sweet Home Alabama starring Ms. Reese Witherspoon!

Alissa
>>113262178

CFCs cleave to Cl atoms under uv radiation from the sun. Cl bind with an O from O3 converting ozone back into O2

Rachel

I’m from Toronto and my dad had to get multiple rounds of rabies shots when a raccoon jumped out of a trash can and swiped his face

iris ♡

the whole time yall were talking about the atmosphere i was literally in shambles asking myself . what do you mean there was a Hole in the ozone layer. where was the hole. how big was it. how come the hole only happened there

Maya Harris
>>113267078

final review is this was so fun, i love when u guys ask questions cause i start looking around me and wonder how it was all invented. also such a valid point abt stem education cause i know these questions, but i don’t even know where all the states are or my multiplication tables😅

shif

this made me realize that I need to ditch my fear of being perceived as being stupid and just search things up on Google‼️

Manon

Canadian binchie here 🫡 If y’all think mosquito’s are terrorists, y’all have never experienced the hell that is a northwestern Ontario summer with the demons that are Black Flies (honourable mention to deer flies and horse flies) they will make you reevaluate your relationship to the earth

Berkley 🌸

I feel like I've heard that mosquitoes prefer people with O type blood. They think we taste extra delicious. Also Michigan binchie here- you haven't experienced anything until you've had to wear a mosquito net in the upper peninsula to protect yourself from the skeeters AND the black flies 🫠

Berkley 🌸

My bff is a veterinarian nursing major and she had to receive the precautionary rounds of the rabies vaccine right in the ass before she could work at the clinic lol

Suzanne Sabin

Loved the episode as usual! Although as someone who studied climate and atmospheric science as part of my master’s degree, the speculations about wind and ozone and greenhouse gases and the earth’s tilt and atmospheric layers wanted to make me pull my hair out a little 😂

Suzanne Sabin

I’ve recently had great success with the Bug Bite thing, seems simple but it’s literally a plastic tube you put over the bite and it suctions the saliva out of the bite and helps stop the itching

nicole vandeweghe

eliza was right, sand is eroded rock! typically it’s the hardest types of rock and also kind of what’s left over after rock made of a lot of types of minerals go through a whole river system because the hard rocks are the only thing that doesn’t just get weathered away to nothing. the sand you see in california is quartz sand so it’s made up of tiny pieces of quartz. however, there’s sand made of other types of rocks in other parts of the world

Manon
>>113269283

FURTHER TO THIS - ticks are my personal hell and I’m so scared of them WHY are they here and what is their purpose I think we need to burn them all

Manon

My ass with an archaeology degree this entire glass convo knowing obsidian is a glass and how it naturally forms: 🧍🏼‍♀️

Katya

rip geographesses listening to this 💀

Sheridan

Environmental science student tears were shed

Sheridan

Julia’s pained “why are you laughing” 😭😭😭

Olivia Levins

I also took preventative malaria medication when I was in Cambodia and almost all of us stopped taking it because our dreams were so wild and crazy

ssteph
>>113271833

me and my environmental engineering degree were quaking in the corner this ep

Kate Bubalo

When I went to Vietnam my doctor gave me a prescription for doxycycline as an anti-malarial. Which meant my skin was a slay tbh

Kira

yeah, im a triple threat: i don’t know shit, i don’t understand things and i don’t get stuff 🥰

Amanda R

waaaiiit planes: when a plan flies is it like “untethered” from the earth’s rotation?? like if a plane flies in the opposite direction of the earth’s rotation does it get there faster? would it take longer in reverse?

lola bolado

ok speaking of rabies a girl i met recently told me you could live through rabies??? like once ur symptomatic there was a shot?? who told her this she wouldn't let me be right either

avery

as someone who just graduated highschool this episode truly hurt my brain. what did they teach you two in school bc all this info should be covered in the K-12 curriculum

alexa schnur

one of the houses at my school had many bats and all the people in the house needed to get rabies shots 😭

Zach Greenwald

follow-up on the navy: if you’re in a little ship and you’re losing your battle and you need to gtfo where are you going?? where are you retreating?? it’s the ocean!!

Leslie Estrada

Name something funnier than Julia saying shonked….I’ll wait

Shawn Hogan

i have never more wanted to transport into your convo and help

Maddie G

“doesn’t the ocean get really hot sometimes, in the deep?” when i tell y’all i cackled

Halo Will

I loved this episode bc i too know nothing

Lindy

my plea to binchtopia is to read more listener submissions- they’re literally the funniest / most outrageous part of the episode and i need to hear more of them

Suzanne Sabin
>>113270372

It’s called Bug Bite Thing! It’s available on Amazon and elsewhere if you Google it

Lindy
>>113247262

omg i was thinking of this radiolab ep! so crazy and informative!!

Hannah

Julia have you ever been checked for hypermobility? I would get spasms constantly from sleeping wrong and it was horrible. I had a similar experience of what I thought was TMJ to you, spent $$$$ on a park avenue TMJ specialist who redirected me to a hypermobility specialist who gave me some injections in my shoulders which helped and was way cheaper than Botox! It affects my sciatica too bc I have an extra lower back vertebrae that acts like a joint 🫠

Sophia Csiacsek

omg i grew up a few towns away from jeanna (the girl who survived rabies) i was screaming when u went to google who survived also i had a bat trapped in my room during college for a few days and my roommate told me i was being a baby for not sleeping in there 😭 my other roomie and future fellow binchie had the rabies vaccine so she eventually got it out for me

Samantha Blovits

girls who don’t know shit about science representation

Jaguar Rain

Modern navies mostly exist to defend shipping routes! Plus submarines for sneaking around weapons and such

Hannah

my grandpa had west nile virus from a mosquito bite

Shelby Hobbs

as a fellow mosquito magnet girlie living in the deep south where they are ✨thriving✨ i feel so seen. haven’t found anything that will actually keep them away but i swear by dr tichenor's peppermint mouthwash that will keep you from scratching and keep the welts down

Emma Witmers

i was really hoping you girlies would discuss bluetooth because i genuinely think about it a little too often to still not know the answer. I love asking others because the general consensus is that no one knows, at least the people i surround myself with…

Tiff

WHO remembers when Tyra Banks pretended to be infected with rabies on the Tyra Banks show and started barking and foaming at the mouth at her audience? Literally will never forget I encourage you all to find it on YouTube 🫡

Delaney Coyne

Omg eliza said RIP mariela canales and i thought she died…

Téa Lindsey

simply screaming as an environmental science girly i—

Liliane Leaser

Julia and Eliza not knowing how the atmosphere works is the equivalent of Benedict Cumberbatch Sherlock not knowing who the prime minister is bc it's not relevant information

Emma Tilley

It’s cuz Texas has really bad spay and neuter laws so lots of stray dogs

Emma Tilley

The thing is also we literally have the ability to genetically manipulate mosquitoes to make them die off it’s just like an ethical debate at this point

theodora

ok regarding the glass issue — the way you’re talking about it and thinking about it is exactly how i feel and think about the WHOLE UNIVERSE! because the big bang was atoms colliding, but where did those first atoms come from!! how did one atom just happen?? like the first one?? i know you need atoms to make more atoms but how did u get the first atom??

Kristen

girly pops you NEEEEED to do more of these

Maggie

We should genetically engineer mosquitoes that can’t bite

Emma

There is a sand shortage cause the US sucks at recycling glass!!!

Olivia

Girls the seasons are because earth is tilted on an axis and day and night are because we spin around once a day

Haven Patrick

natural glass... lightening hitting sand... sweet home alabama

delaney

this is one of my favorite episodes you guys have done lmfaoooo i feel so seen

Natalie

Please do a tour of a glass blowing studio or something for the IG/patreon that would be sick

Paloma Ocola

the way my physics phd having self was screaming thru this one lolol but truly appreciate the amount of curiosity about the natural world, her mystery and her beauty!

Tori D

the earth rotation answer is that at night the side of the earth you are on is not facing the sun, which is why the other side of the world is having day at that time (time zones). the seasonal rotation is an oval so we are actually equally close to sun in summer and winter, but bc the earths axis is at an angle, the northern and southern hemispheres experience the opposite seasons based on whether the north or south is angled closer to the sun <3 sincerely i loved astronomy and physics in high school

Sasha

AND I ALSO HAD THE SAME QUESTIONS ON WIND. took a whole earth science class and still don’t understand

Katrina Salehyan

Crying laughing over this. I get the same kind of hysterical over Bluetooth like it keeps me up at night. Like what the fuck do you mean the music I play on my phone gets sent to my car or to a speaker or to my headphones??? Or my phone can Bluetooth broadcast the screen onto my TV?? My tiny brain doesn’t get it and I don’t even want an explanation for it anymore

clara strachan

As a Scottish person I can tell you the sea is for sure disputed lol (fishing / oil drilling etc). - it's a key issue in the Scottish independence debate! Also see the whole Taiwan stressing out over the Barbie movie showing a scrawled childlike map which shows the South China Sea debacle - v interestin', we just can't hack leaving the sea the fuck alone apparently!

Caroline Dunn

Listening to this episode while pipetting at my job in a research lab and dyinggggggg at the science commentary

Emily
>>113298500

I was literally about to comment this I wanna hear what Gav has 2 say on this 🗣️

Emily

Begging y’all for an episode on the South China Sea

johanna

you guys are genuinely tackling something near and dear to my heart. i am viscerally insecure about Not Knowing Things and i appreciate you normalizing “dumb” questions <3

Sarah
>>113239709

This is a great show to watch while high for any binchies who are into that

Sarah
>>113247567

Literally came here to comment this and was hoping I wasn’t the only listener old enough for this movie to have been a formative childhood film

Sarah
>>113290830

I think about this tooooo often. Like if there was NOTHING just sitting in a whole bunch of NOTHINGNESS how did all the sudden SOMETHING happen? And also how is the universe STILL expanding? Expanding INTO WHERE??????

Callie S

“did you know that the atmosphere is just gas?” sent me and I also feel so seen and heard by every second of this so thank you for being brave and sharing

Nia

this is probably part of why people are religious😭 it’s sm less headache inducing to be like “well that’s just the way [deity] made it”

jordan

this ep truly sent me into fits of giggles on my walk! it’s so important to normalize being a girlie who is so smart and dumb at the same time 🩵

jordan

ALSO they can’t vaccinate everyone against rabies at birth bc the immunity wanes after like 6 months so there’s no point! so if you get the post exposure vaccine and then get bitten again a few years later, you have to go through the whole process again and it’s big $$$$

Alex

once when I was camping, this hippie left the door to the kitchen cabin open and let the mosquitos in. I started my killing spree but he then proceeded to ~tell~ me to cup them and set them free and I havent been the same since

Amanda palermo

I’m an ER nurse and literally give rabies shots, and you have to give them a weight based dose intramuscular THEN if they actually are bit you have to inject ALL around the bite a shit ton more times, it seems very unpleasant

jordan
>>113269283

northern mich binchie can confirm! I almost fell off a cliff at pictured rocks trying to escape a black fly 😭

Dayna

yall should get the ladies from this podcast will kill you on to talk about mosquitoes

Emily
>>113296063

Temperature 😌 mass 😟 pressure 😮 makes movement 😮‍💨

Jj

Wait I’m so obsessed with this episode 😭😭😭😭🤣

Gabriella Reamer

Literally the best ep thank y’all pls do this more

Ash

LIGHTNING!!!! lightning can strike sand and make natural glass!!!! thank u sweet home Alabama

M

Julia…. we are revolving around the sun and turning too 🙃 we learned this in 3rd grade

Katherine

Girls..BENADRYL SPRAY!!! Was a staple in my house growing up and is the only thing that helps me with bug bites

priscilla

julia as a hot girl with a deep rooted hatred of mosquitos i must put you on hydrocortisone! i’m pretty sure 1% is the max strength over the counter but getting a prescription for 2.5% will change your life. saved me from itching off my completely swollen foot

Brenna Johnson

Iowa binchies know to use Bug Soother before going outside 🤞🏻

kerrie

fun fact I took an international law class and basically the UN and international court of justice does oversee cases ab maritime law but they’re guided by this thing called the equidistance principle to see whose continental shelf is closer meaning its there territory but yea if interested look up the north sea continental shelf cases or the corfu channel case

kerrie
>>113315367

I wonder if any law applies to the cayman islands tho men are always going there to commit white collar crimes

Julia & Erica

u should go on a binchtopia field trip to the corning glass museum

Kaley Alness

I feel so seen with Julias question about the sun & earth seasons v daytime question. I have never been a natural sciences girlie and that's simply someone else's problem

caroline
>>113283932

omg also the hyper mobility and adhd co-occurrence rates are INSANE like 80%

Holly Mattox

Ok I had to skip the glass conversation entirely

Holly Mattox

My stupid girl guesss about the planes is that the air pressure is thinner so they can go saurrrrrr fast also planes go like 600 mph

Rosewater

For any binchies who want to listen to a truly terrifying rabies tale, there's an old This American Life episode about a woman who was attacked by a rabid raccoon in the 90s, then in a race against time had to drive around to different hospitals begggggging for the antibody shot and nobody wanted to give it to her!!! It's Act I https://www.thisamericanlife.org/319/and-the-call-was-coming-from-the-basement

Julia

you guys have to try the Bug Bite Thing! it’s like a little syringe looking guy that slurps up the toxins from your mosquito bites and it really works!

Amanda Crampton

I got rabies shots when I went to India (I swear most western countries don’t have it and am shocked and appalled that the US does buy you don’t need the shots to travel there?) and they were HELL literally both my arms were covered in bruises they fucked me up so bad I didn’t go back for the follow ups

Sloan

There’s a radio lab episode on rabies that is sooo good!! It goes more in-depth to why some people are immune to rabies

Lydia

For mosquito bites put rubbing alcohol on them as soon as you notice the bites!!! It’s the ONLY thing that has worked for me. The bug bite thing doesn’t work, anti itch cream doesn’t work, but rubbing alcohol stops the bite in its tracks

Abby

Felt like I came with you guys on a shrooms trip. Plato and Aristotle with a podcast has never been truer than during the earths axis part

Cricket Kaya

We gotta remember that mosquitos are a result of climate change and a loss in biodiversity!! We need more animals/insects that eat mosquitos, not more deet.

Zahra Hasan

As an environmental scientist this ep was genuinely so hard to listen to ❤️ love y’all and support ur curiosity regardless

Carlee Knott

Not me growing up with bats constantly flying around in my old house. 😬 Never worried about rabies before.

Zahra Hasan

Let me be the scientist guest on the pod and I will yassify my explanations

Areej Khan
>>113334773

I would luv this, let’s bring on educated binchies to share their knowledge

Charlotte M

Thank you so much lovelies for posting this right before this previously not concerned about malaria Northern European binchie about to jet off to Kenya💕💕 very hyped to pop some delicious anti malaria pills rn

Ellen

THE GIRL WHO SURVIVED RABIES IS FROM MY HOMETOWN! it’s our only claim to fame lmao. in the 2000s every time she did something like graduated or got married it was on the news

Amelia McCluskey
>>113297825

wait till I tell u that the other day my Bluetooth speaker was malfunctioning and connecting to my phone without me wanting it to and my bf showed me that if you close the speaker in the microwave it blocks the signal from getting to the speaker???? So it couldn’t connect to my phone anymore??? Absolutely baffling

aleigha

as a geology and environmental science binchie… this episode has me CRACKING UP!! your minds!

Anna Pagliarulo

Not correcting just begging y’all to curl up & watch sweet home Alabama asap

Mya Tozzi

“is there naturally occurring glass??” eliza: “yeah sea glass 😊”

Athena111

Anyone remember when people on tumblr tried to make rabies a sexuality and made a flag and everything and tried to get it and give it to eachother or just me 😭😭

Julia & Erica

unrelated but do any nyc girlies have an extra tour ticket they want to sell?

Zina

This episode was everything I needed and more, thank u

morgan
>>113344080

immediately what i thought of when they mentioned glass and sand!

Josie Moran

my mom’s friend runs a non profit where she brings medical supplies, mosquito nets, toys, books, etc to Cameroon (org name is AidsFreeAfrica pls support) and when she goes over to Africa she comes back to the US with malaria almost every time!! she’s made it out alive every time so far so can confirm the girlies bounce BACK from malaria when it’s not too severe

lefthandedscorpio

I bet y’all could make a beautiful wildflower case 😜 just sayin

Coco

My neighbor was attacked and nearly drowned by a rabid beaver…..Rabies fear IS VALID !🦫

tabitha hill

w the earths rotation and orbit: rotation is bc of inertia (& started spinning in the first place bc idk!!) and orbit bc of u think about the path the earth takes it’s like it goes forward and then the suns gravity pulls in in again and then goes forward a bit and then gravity again

Sabrina Satterthwaite

I can’t decide if listening to the topics I don’t know shit about it the topics I know lots about is more entertaining 💀the duality of needing to urgently slap a diagram of earths rotation in front of you guys while also low key feeling like recreating a hole in the ozone is reasonable😂

Manon
>>113269283

The worst is when you’re swimming and those mf horse flies find you so you go underwater to escape them but they just WAIT for you to come back UP like ok guess I’ll drown

madeline

“It’s not my responsibility to know why the earth turns around” exactly

Grace Ann Keller

ABOUT ELIZA’S NERVE PAIN— first of all im so so sorry girl, i’ve struggled with really bad nerve pain in both legs for the past 2 years and I know how shitty it is (and like …disturbing.. compared to like muscle/joint pain) anyways I just want to say be aware of how ur sitting/posture and DO NOT sit up in bed/on the couch with ur legs straight out in front of u- this puts more strain on the nerve and can make the pain spread down further into your legs! Also i recommend getting a lumbar support pillow for travel!! And as for medication I know tylonel and other typical pain killers don’t do shit for nerve pain- gabapentin can give some relief, as well as really fucking strong CBD salves… Best of luck , I’m so sorry ur experiencing this!

Grace Ann Keller
>>113358742

also if it persists I highly recommend going to a spine clinic if you can! they’ll be able to help u way more than ur GP probs

Marina Wallman

in my high school auditorium, we had two bats (which we nicknamed jay-z and beyoncé) that resided in the light loft and occasionally make appearances during rehearsals and shows for TWO YEARS and i had no idea it was like….. genuinely dangerous. as a former backstage kid, i am now actually horrified and concerned for my and my peers potential rabies exposure????

hal m

oh my god my friend who lives in Rio got dengue fever from a mosquito bite and they had to get BRAIN SURGERY because of it and they go in regularly for checkups (they're fine now but what the fuck) literally anything can happen whenever it's wild

Nora

hmmm maybe we should get the girls enrolled in some earth science extension courses at a local college

hal m

when I read gathering moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer (HIGHLY recommend) I learned about the boundary layer which is pretty much the layer around an object where the particles stick together I think? So wind and air movement has to be pretty strong to break it because they're all sticking to each other with their bonds (someone else please tell me if I'm getting this wrong) so the easiest example is when it's super windy at the beach but you lay down on the sand and it's warm and there's no wind but if you sit up it gets windy again, that's because of the boundary layer above the sand, crazy shit

syd

i love you guys but when julia said “wait so it’s not real wind?” that’s when i started screaming in frustration in my car 😭

Brooke

Obsessed w this plz do more uninformed eps

syd
>>113300463

As an East Asian Studies major PLEASE no 😭

Kamrin Baker

JULIA go look up the World Mosquito Project because they're doing some cool ass stuff in mosquito virus prevention

syd

Girliesss you need to visit Griffith Observatory! They have really good demos for the earth’s rotation and how it gives us seasons and things like that.

Maddy

The premed experience is learning about the Krebs cycle over and over but never retaining it

Janie

ITCH ERASER spray for mosquito bites it literally saved my life. It’s like liquid Benadryl or something but you put it on and the bite NEVER bothers you again

Katie Beer

Eliza please google tetanus symptoms and also prion disease. You’ll die. Lol

Georgia Parish

Girls I NEED $10 at the Eliza show for merch pls lord!!!! We’re at the biltmore back booth

Cat

^^^^^^^

Julia
>>113328436

the sooner after you get bitten the better. i think the hole needs to be fresh and not healed over yktv

julia

Next ep can you pls comment on Lana del Rey working at waffle house. I'm dying 😭🥲

Cara Walkam

Not you discussing Gordi!!! 😍

Madison Siegfried

You should use pure vanilla extract (rub small amount on body) to repel mosquitos and smell like a bath n body works kween

Charlotte Beck

my beautiful binchies — u should listen to the podcast This Podcast Will Kill You. its a podcast about poisons and diseases run by two wonderful woman doctors. they have done episodes on rabies and mosquito born diseases and they will answer all ur questions!!

Charlotte Beck

also you guys HAVEEE to go to the glass blowing place in asheville nc ifs so dorbs. its called lexington glassworks and they blow glass right before your eyes!!

Clea Arlès

Nooo im going to Florida in 2 days please pray for me I don’t want to get malaria

lauren baker

would love to see y’all collab with the depths of wikipedia girl

Isabel Alves de Lima
>>113266374

Isn’t sea glass just regular glass that got dumped in the water and rolled around so much it gets smoothed over?? P sure the sea doesn’t just BIRTH glass

PJ Heusted

AH you girlies should look into the book “ninety percent of everything” if you are even a tiny bit curious about maritime law and the shit show MYSTERY that is the global shipping industry. i didn’t realize i would be so interested in container ships, maritime law, and modern day pirates until i picked it up. FASCINATING read by a girl boss

Ella Schigur

I hope you girls read this: my mom got malaria when she was in college (she was in Sierra Leone) and had to be evacuated by the American military (👀) stationed in the country. She made a full recovery and it’s made almost no impact on her life other than the ✨trauma✨ :)

Madison Balushi

Unrelated but anyone have two tickets to a boston show they're looking to sell????

taliyah

glass maker chiming in here… it’s actually jk i have no clue

Faelen

I had to STUDY the whole earth rotation situation to teach a 2nd grade Read Aloud book and just kept a running list of the kids questions for us to google because I could NOT answer any 8 year old questions on the topic

baby.yogurt

in the middle of the episode having a flash of memory of growing up in south dakota and watching these white trucks the city sent out go by during the summertime that would drive around and spray some chemical into the air to repel mosquitos....I have no idea what that substance was but we were told to get very far away from the trucks when they came by and to NEver breathe that stuff in. pls someone tell me they know what I'm talking about rn......

Ragan Sawyer

As a former peace corps girlie I had to get the 3 rabies shots. They are the only shot (included covid) that gave me a fever and knocked me tf out after getting it. I think a lot of pc people get them because of the potential of stray dogs. I heard they are really expensive to get which is a reason why it’s not as common to get them, but after hearing the stats from here on how uncommon it is.. thats probably the real reason lmaoo For dengue I never personally got it but I taught 1st grade one year and my whole class except for 4 kids so 11/15 kids got dengue the 2nd week of school. I honestly don’t know how that works but it was very scary because they’re just little guys ): some had to get hospitalized, but all were ok

liz

this was a tough one ladies i will admit

baby.yogurt

as a non college educated binchie I'm feeling very represented rn

Joe Rogan

Apparently no rabies in aus… so when’s tha tourrrr 🫣

amelia🌷🪩💌

i’m lease break your silence on lana’s waffle house career

Virginia Nault

i just want to thank this episode for giving me the reason why i have been having the most insane dreams…..malaria prevention tablets 🫡

sarah werner

girlies you should go to the corning museum of glass in corning ny!! truly fascinating

sarah werner
>>113570583

they do glass demos & the lovely artists there will answer every question about everything glass u have

marya

y’all ever seen the episode of criminal minds where they kill ppl by infecting them w rabies? absolute nightmare fuel.

freya

so does this mean julia considers psychology not to be a science

Genn

eliza i need to hear your thoughts on lana serving at waffle house asap

Emmaline

As a stem girly I can assure you I do feel stupid when I don’t know the year ww2 started

Leia

Help I’m begging, does anyone have the discord link? I’m in Berlin with my partner for a week and desperately tryna connect with German Binchies and make friends

Lauren Daniels

🦟‼️150 mosquito bites in one night survivor here ☝️ i went to memphis for my bffs wedding in july 2012. i went back to the hotel after the wedding to shower and change before we went out that night, and my first wrong move was putting on the lotions the hotel gives you. it was like lemon verbena or something really strong smelling like that. then we went out to downtown memphis that night, which is right next to the arkansas river. in the middle of summer under a hot july moon 🌙 . anyways i proceeded to get obliterated that night on red bull vodkas and vegas bombs so needless to say, i was pumping out some SWEET smells for those mosquitos. i ended up going back to the hotel with this beautiful guy i’d met at the wedding (miss you joe ❤️) and rolled around in what i THOUGHT were itchy ass hotel sheets for a few hours. i woke up the next morning hungover as fuck and suffffffering thinking i had an allergic reaction to something or that i’d been literally poisoned or something the night before. i pull the sheets down and my legs are SO swelled up, it looked like i had two overcooked bratwursts as legs. i ended up counting on the 6 hour car drive home, and from just my waist down i had ***over 150+*** mosquito bites!!! there were so many i just stopped counting. it was so itchy, it was tortureeeeee i’d rather be waterboarded!!. i had to wrap my legs in duct tape to keep me from itching them, so i was walking around looking like the tin-man and couldn’t bend my knees 😂 i ended up going to the ER because i couldn’t take it. they gave me a cortisol shot and a steroid shot and some steroids to take home, and it eventually cleared up but my legs are covered in little circle scars from those disgusting beasts. basically, the scented lotion, the sweet sugary drinks all night, the proximity to the disgusting river, and mosquitos natural attraction to me already, all combined to make one of the worst experiences of my life TO THIS DAY!!! i never walk outside for even 15 seconds without putting on deet now. even then they sometimes still get me though - julia is right, we need innovation that excites to curb or decimate the mosquitos population ASAP! why isn’t joe biden talking about this?!!

mace

Just learned that only female mosquitoes bite…. and only need a “blood meal” when pregnancy is near. Otherwise they help pollinate flowers n such like bees. Honestly justice for Her

Kay

Me being like ofc there’s sand in glass bc of Minecraft…

Kay

Also this ep reminds me of the one Julia did with Allegra and now I’m nostalgic 💗

avvsies

JULIA I sent an email about how my horrible Jewish sleepaway camp burned down in a historic forest fire and I’m hoping and praying and crying and throwing up that y’all read it for next weeks episode 🥲🫡

Lucia M

This is my favorite way to do science

Sophia Pederson

You guys should start a series where you learn about physical and biological science concepts and then teach us and we can all learn together. OR have some smart science people on the podcast to explain graduate level science concepts.

Olena Malich

Eliza you were actually on the right track when you started explaining the day/night rotation vs the seasonal changes in orbit ‼️‼️

astrid

eliza you should move to vancouver island, we don't have rabies here

Anna Sansbury

Oxitec is genetically modifying mosquitoes that don’t bite❤️😇

Bella D'amico

im screaming over the glass paradox😭

Kat

why does making glass feel like when you make yogurt

Camy Allison

Screams in environmental science major

Leia
>>113633199

Omg send me a message on insta I’d love to meet up!! My insta is g0blinnqueen

Suzy

KILN!!!!!!

Lily Abrahams

this episode is actually just a tell all on the american public school system

Bonnie Joe

Girlies I ordered a bug zapper for our house and it killed all the mosquitos. It’s loud but worth it 🫡 Also everything here in tx just sucks significantly more than everywhere else idk what to tell y’all🙃

Madelaine Maloney

Okay 2 things! 1. My grandma swears by using vinegar as bug repellent. 2. If the whole “if the sun was 2 inches closer” thing was true, we would get toasted any time we jumped 😂 Thanks for being vulnerable, binchies 😂 love y’all

Haley Adams

Girl …. Skeeter syndrome. I have it and it sounds like u do too!!! Rip

Haley Adams

Also apparently vanilla is a repellent

annabel rose

i like this episode bc it made me feel smart 😀

Maya

I fear I must sadly skip a lot of this episode as I already have RAGING health anxiety😭

Grace Keane O'Connor

Mosquitos are also pollinators unfortunately >:((( their main food is nectar weirdly , maybe more beautiful flowers for them to eat would end their tyrannical reign

Amberly K.

First of all I think no one should be deemed “stupid” because they don’t know something and are asking questions, willing to learn. I mean, how are you supposed to know something if no one ever told you? Though this episode did make me worry a bit about the American school system, as I am from Germany and most of the questions, especially everything astrophysics related, is covered in our school curriculum. That said, your question are very basic ones you will find easy answers to if you search for some kind of animation, especially about the way the earth moves and why (has to do with mass). Also, contrary to popular belief it is actually summer when we are further away from the sun, it’s more about the angle the sunlight hits us and because we rotate in an elliptical orbit. Although I am not a scientist so maybe I did not phrase this correctly. I think you should really look some of this up, it can be quite fun to learn even about wind because then you have a deeper understanding of the weather that surrounds you every single day.

Amberly K.
>>114212594

Oh and to add to that, as someone who has always had interest in both science and the humanities I definitely agree that most people value science more. I started doing a science degree but now switched to follow my passion, doing a degree in art history and was constantly told how I “wasted my potential”, so yeah

Tasha

The beach is less windy at night too because of land breeze where the sea is warmer at night than the land and more dense and pressured. I had to take a meteorology course and it was HELL because I don’t know how wind goes left and right

Tasha
>>114244193

Also I’m a navigational officer on ships and it is indeed the Wild West 200 nautical miles off land and it’s SCARY

Marina Wallman

i’m selling ONE ticket to the 08/08 Boston show!!! $37, but price is negotiable:) love y’all!!!! respond to this comment to get in touch :)

blaine

Immediately thought of the movie Sweet Home Alabama when you talked about glass!!!

Kaleigh

Crying in the fact that glass is my masters I’m going to be getting a PhD in it please let me speak 😭😭😭

Bonnie Joe

Y’all are both right and y’all should say it 😤

Bonnie Joe

Also how do we experience night but we don’t simultaneously experience winter when we experience night? Like if the amount of sun light goes down bc we’re facing away from the sun, shouldn’t we also experience a significant drop in temp at the same time? Confused at how night and summer happen at the same time

Connie
>>114280271

The earth’s axis is tilted! summer in the northern hemisphere happens when the northern hemisphere is closer to the sun. 6 months later it’s on the other side of the sun, so now it’s winter. That’s why it’s reversed for Australia

Vega Gullette

You guys sound like Cunk on Earth

Valentina Pavlovic

omg SCIATICA TRIPLETS!!’ Honestly besties doctors can be so useless what, for me i found trauma can cause the sciatica and muscle spasming, check out Dr Zoranavich you’re actually near him in person xoxox

Ali Cribb

Lol late to this episode but as a girlie with a PhD in geology who teaches intro earth science to undergrads, this episode cracked me up but I promise you actually asked some VERY good questions

ava

hello girlies !!! all sufferers of mosquito bites should try 2 coats of clear nail polish over the bite ; it blocks the oxygen from entering the bite and prevents the itchiness 🫡

Sam Haimowitz

J: “do I have rabies??” E: “well if you do, literally goodbye”

Shari

love the vulnerability 🫶 this one humbled me

chelsea

y’all this is incredibly late, but did you know Mosquites tie in with the Cold war????